Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime
Release Year: 2011
Country: USA
Runtime: 129 min
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Guy Ritchie
Sound: SDDS, DTS, Dolby Digital
Writing by: Michele Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Cast:
- Robert Downey Jr. – Sherlock Holmes
- Jude Law – Dr. John Watson
- Noomi Rapace – Madam Simza Heron
- Rachel McAdams – Irene Adler
- Jared Harris – Professor James Moriarty
- Stephen Fry – Mycroft Holmes
- Paul Anderson – Colonel Sebastian Moran
- Kelly Reilly – Mary Watson
- Geraldine James – Mrs. Hudson
- Eddie Marsan – Inspector Lestrade
- William Houston – Constable Clark
Music:
- Hans Zimmer
Plot:
- Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty.
Movie Quotes:
- Dr. John Watson: You’re drinking embalming fluid?
- Sherlock Holmes: Yes. Care for a drop?
- Dr. John Watson: You do seem…
- Sherlock Holmes: Excited?
- Dr. John Watson: Manic.
- Sherlock Holmes: I am.
- Dr. John Watson: Verging on…
- Sherlock Holmes: Ecstatic?
- Dr. John Watson: Psychotic.
- Professor Moriaty: I don’t blame you. I blame myself. It’s been apparent to me for some time that you would succumb to your feelings for him. It isn’t the first occasion that Mr. Holmes inconvenienced me in recent months. The question is: What to do about it?
Trivia:
- Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Penn and Javier Bardem were considered to play Moriarty.
- Both Robert Downey Jr. (Holmes) and Jared Harris (Moriarty) had acted in the Oliver Stone film Natural Born Killers.
- Robert Morley and Stephen Fry have both played Oscar Wilde and Mycroft Holmes. In the Gyles Brandreth books where Oscar is a detective, his friend Conan Doyle states that Oscar was the inspiration for Mycroft.
